Name:   slowtimer - Subject:   Question: if someone brings a 30 foot boat Date:   6/24/2019 12:15:01 PM

Yep...  I spent a lot of time and money this winter under my dock to shore up the structure.  Waves from wakeboard/wakesurf boats have been getting really bad and pounding our dock to the point where the whole thing rocks back and forth from the wave action.  It should be good now.  Let's not ban wakeboard boats because we will end up in a wack-a-mole scenerio.  The people who have wakeboard boats now will just move onto something else that could possibly be worse.  

Guess what people...  A lot of the people who had Cigarette boats and had to remove them from the lake are the same people who now have wakeboard boats.  Which is more damaging???  Cigarette boats don't make much of a wake at all if they are driving like they are supposed to be.  Cigarette boats are not designed to slowly plow through the water.  They are designed to ride on top of the water as efficiently as possible.  This design by nature reduces the wake size.  The more you plow in the water the bigger your waves are which is exactly what wakeboard boats are designed to do.

I got passed by two twin engine pontoon boats going over 60 mph this weekend.  They were in the 27-30' range and were running great and packing air like a cat boat.  They were running on the back 3'-4' of pontoons.  One even had the boat so dialed in it was throwing a rooster tail.  It's crazy to think a pontoon boat can do that and I loved watching them.  By the letter of the law, those boats are illegal but nobody cares because they are just quiet pontoon boats.